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Many people are well aware of the history of segregation of African American students in the Kansas City, Missouri, public schools, but there’s a…
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Segment 1: Jackson County legislators answer questions of current budget, property tax and working with county executive Frank White.Jackson County…
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The mostly nondescript Building 2101 at Fort Leonard Wood was the home of the Black Officers' Club before the Army was desegregated in 1948. The...
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Segment 1: Busing to desegregate schools: then and nowFor some, busing throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s held a negative connotation. But education…
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As she was dying, Sonya Willis' mother gave her daughter a warning. "She watched me sit back and put my head in my hand and she said, 'Don't you cry.' ...…
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A middle school in Kansas City has been named after Gloria Willis, who grew up in Texas under Jim Crow Law. She joined Kansas City Kansas Public Schools…
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Segment 1: New data analysis of Kansas City's public school environment.A new analysis shows public and charter schools in Kansas City are more…
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Segment 1: District attorneys' exercise of power has affected mass incarceration and convicted the innocent. The United States is the only country in the…
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Both traditional public schools and charters in Kansas City are increasingly segregated, expensive to run and losing high school students, according to a…
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Segment 1: Race Project KC is educating high school students on structural racism in Kansas City. Built off of Tanner Colby's book "Some of My Best…
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Chester Owens Jr. remembers bucking the laws of Jim Crow that said a black man had no right to eat where and when he wanted.In 1952, one of those places…
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Segment 1: How black cultural institutions can serve as a place for community healing.It's no secret that Kansas City still bears scars of redlining and…